On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:31 -0500, Michael Kubovy wrote:
> Dear r-helpers,
>
> In basic graphics, I have a figure with x and y axes suppresed. I
> would like to move the xlab and the ylab closer to the axes. Do I
> have to use mtext()?
Michael,
You could set the first value in par("mgp") in the plot() call.
Compare:
# Default values
plot(1, mgp = c(3, 1, 0), axes = FALSE)
# Move the labels closer
plot(1, mgp = c(1, 1, 0), axes = FALSE)
Changing that value is comparable to changing the 'line' argument in
mtext().
See ?par
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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